WHY DOES THE EU WANT TO MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THE UK TO LEAVE THE EU?

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

I ask this question: Why do so many in the EU want to make it so difficult, long drawn out and downright expensive for the UK to leave the EU?

The answer is quite simple and it is not because they love us. It is, of course, that root of all evil – Money. There are three net contributors and 24 net takers in the EU. Due to the size of our economy and various formulae, we are one of the ‘lucky’ three net contributors, to the tune of many millions of pounds a day.

We are sandwiched between Germany – the biggest contributor and France. It doesn’t take a genius to work this one out. The other two net contributors do not want to take on any extra burden when we leave. They are under some pressure from their own people in this regard.

Of course, the 24 net takers do not want their ‘income’ reduced. This, added to the reduction of options available for economic migration, means that they will continue to give us a tough ride and we need to be determined to move on and get out as soon as is possible.

UKIP have a role to play here. We got the referendum. We won the referendum. We must ensure that the people’s decision is implemented as quickly and efficiently as possible!

UK contributions to the EU still total about 55 million pounds a day, whilst at home, care for the elderly and most vulnerable is being reduced, services are being cut, and health, policing and roads are being run down We should not be expected to carry on paying this beyond the two year period following Article 50 being triggered.

Any suggestion that we need to go through a long drawn out ‘interim’ arrangement is merely remoaners prevarication tactics whilst they work to destroy the democratic process. The UK’s electorate decided by a majority of well over a million votes to leave the EU. It was made perfectly clear during the campaign that the reason to leave was to regain our sovereignty, which quite clearly and primarily included:

the ability to regulate immigration into the UK to sustainable levels on a fair to the whole world basis;

to opt out of the EU Judicial system and regain the ability to make and operate our own laws;

to leave the single market AND the customs union, thus enabling us to do trade deals with the whole world;

to use the 55 million pounds a day as we determine, not the faceless bEUrocraps.

Some of the 55 million pounds is paid back to support deprived areas of our country. So why give it in the first place? Are we not to be trusted to support our own needy areas and industries, whilst at the same time saving the enormous amount lost through bEUrocrapit administration and red tape in the current process?

In any event, the EU’s record of ‘helping’ our industry is nothing short of appalling. One has only to consider how our Fishing Industry has been destroyed by EU regulation and how our government was severely restricted by EU regulation when trying to help rescue our floundering Steel industry a short while ago.

Eventually, the EU will crumble, due to, amongst other things:

Financial meltdown in many of its constituent countries

Its gradual fall in percentage share of world GDP

Depopulation of poorer countries as economic migrants of working age leave in droves

High levels of youth unemployment in many countries

There have been many national financial disasters within the EU and there is huge youth unemployment over a wide range of EU member States. This, together with depopulation, is ultimately likely to boil over, with serious consequences and possible civil unrest leading to fragmentation. Is what is happening in Spain the beginning?

The UK economy, immigration and migration are inextricably linked. We currently have a situation that allows unlimited immigration into the UK from the EU and as we are a very attractive proposition for so many, our immigration levels from the EU are so high that we have been and still are forced to discriminate against and unfairly restrict immigration from the Commonwealth and rest of the World. This obviously influences the economy.

Immigration can be a good thing and should be embraced, provided that it is controlled to suit the host country’s needs and limitations at any given point in time. However, even if it is true that existing levels and quality of EU immigration are an overall a benefit to our country, it must follow that if we were able to control and select immigrants on merit and an equitable basis from the Commonwealth, EU and rest of the World and also limit it to numbers that would not put undue pressure on our housing, welfare, health, transport and education services, then we would clearly even further improve our economy.

Of course, it goes much further than that. Many EU workers are happy to take low wages here which are much higher than they can earn at home. This is perfectly understandable from their point of view, but has the effect of depressing wages at the lower end here. Further to this, when earning such low wages, they become eligible for high levels of in work benefits and often housing priority. This adds enormous pressure to our economy.

Regarding the argument that migrant workers such as nurses and doctors are propping up our NHS, I say that is an indictment of our lack of investment into the appropriate training of our own people. It is an easy way out of a problem – a quick, but short-sighted fix. It’s not even really a fix at all: we are virtually stealing qualified professionals from their badly-in-need homelands. Is this ethical? By such actions we are contributing to the demise of nations.

We need to completely overhaul our education system, with the starting point being ‘what do we need and what will benefit our people best’. We need to move away from the ludicrous idea that 50 per cent of our young people need to go to university and study for irrelevant degrees that are of little use to them or employers and end up with them being disillusioned, overqualified and £30,000 in debt.

Our aim should be to channel the young according to their skills and abilities and the country’s needs. We need to prioritise such as science and engineering. We need to encourage trade apprenticeships allied to a return to practical polytechnic courses. We need to train our own doctors and nurses.

The EU is an undemocratic shambles that not only takes power from democratically elected national governments, but also renders its own elected Members of the European Parliament impotent and irrelevant and subject to the rule of the faceless unelected travellers on the ‘First Class Only Express’ that is the EU gravy train!

21 Comments

The doomed EU is making life difficult for us because they want to show the other 26 (excluding Germany), what THEY would face if they tried to ESCAPE !

citizenkain
on October 21, 2017 at 10:11 pm

BREAKING NEWS
Top two parties in Czech GE today are both antiEU and libertarian nationalist
Total is 40%+ of votes
left wing parties have collapsed.
This follows on from similar results in Hungary Poland and Austria
the People are on the march
Dont believe the evilbbc – nationalism is winning against all the odds.

Norman
on October 18, 2018 at 8:28 am

But , but, according to some poll on Sky yesterday ( trusted news source apparently) support for the e.u remains solid and over 60% and the same sort of numbers across the e.u say more or less the same thing, and they would like more e.u. Mind you they do note that when we supposedly leave.. we take with us the economic might of 17 or 18 ‘states’. All of whom think their lives have improved in the e.u as long as somebody else pays for it. But there we go. By the way, Don’t talk about e.u military unification it may upset the project!

The Pier
on October 21, 2017 at 2:25 pm

Britain is also the EU in the eyes of the money men and our tawdry quisling Government, the difficulties are deliberately self made.

In effect those in power here are just colluding with them over there in an extended stage managed choreographed pantomime with an agreed pre determined outcome. Britain is the EU and remains.

Beware of the fictitious massive 90 billion £ bill to leave and the ensuing related second referendum dressed up as democracy to thwart the British public.

citizenkain
on October 21, 2017 at 12:26 pm

THE BIG PICTURE NATIONALISM IS WINNING
Despite being net beneficiaries of EU largesse all the Visegrad countries are moving relentlessly to a break with Brussels. In those 4 countries combining ultranationalist and ukip equivalent votes/polls it appears that antiEU sentiment is at 40%.
Austria now has the two top parties with tot 55% of pop for anti marxist antiEU nationalism.
Denmark the ukip equivalent is in Government, part of coalition
Finland the True Finns are gaining momentum
France the NF continues to poll 25-30%
Germany AfD is gaining real strength despite an ultra hostile media and mass brainwashing at school.
Catalonia is an example to all Europe about freedom
Malta and Cyprus are dodgy states
Baltic states have a tot pop of 7million
My impression is that within 5 years the EU will hit a big crisis
May will probably make sure we are still in the slave camp when the collapse comes.
She will go down in history as our worst ever PM

citizenkain
on October 21, 2017 at 12:33 pm

I should add that Bulgaria fears Turkey and is increasingly hostile to the marxist aspects of the EU. Only relative poverty keeps her quiet
Romania is deeply corrupt
Greece has been humiliated by the EU. The country is increasingly dividing into two hostile camps – leftwing socialists and ultra nationalists.
The EU is creating mayhem and murder by its opendoor immigration policies.
One day soon there will be a new series of Nuremberg Trials.
TODAY SAT 21ST OCT NATIONALISTS WILL WIN IN CZECH GE

Toby Micklethwait
on October 21, 2017 at 12:08 pm

Dear Gerald (Gravett),

Excellent article.

You mentioned “that root of all evil – Money”.

I have recently accepted a job as a “Year Group Representative” for my old college at Cambridge,

At my first meeting I challenged some dons thus “You guys are out of touch. East Anglia voted Leave but you voted Remain”. The dons replied “We need to protect our EU subsidies”.

During my 3 years at Cambridge I had been told that dons were men of high principle. But it turns out that the highest principle is: “Give us the money”.

Mark my words we will pay atleast 50 billion,when we are not required to pay any amount,the 17.4 million votes will be ignored, Mrs Mays performance as Home Secretary should be enough to remind all that she is not fit for purpose, the other quislings are just waiting in the wings. Keep the pressure on, Thanks Derek.

Tom Collins
on October 22, 2017 at 12:14 am

Every, and woman, has his/her price !

Russell Hicks
on October 21, 2017 at 11:49 am

A great article Gerald.

Get a Times Online subscription and beat the Remoaners to death there with good arguments and hard facts! The Times is one of the most prolific sources of Pro-EU garbage and they need putting to bed.

Roger Turner
on October 21, 2017 at 11:12 am

Just to give some up to date news, I watched “Sputnik” on RT this morning, there was a Conservative MP who had a Polish background, being interviewed about members of his family who had been murdered by the Germans during the war, for hiding Jews in their homes and on their farm buildings. It was also mentioned the Germans had never paid reparations to Poland (Instructions from Russia to satellites not to apply for them)

This Conservative MP(name ends in `ski`) when asked about Brexit said he believes all will be satisfactorily negotiated (fudged/surrendered), which I take it to mean the ransom demand, but he said the actual sticking point will be the position of the ECJ during the transition period, he said if we are not rid of the ECJ completely, we are not really running our own affairs and in effect we are still in the ECJ.

Without control of our military and what’s left of the industrial complex, we are not free of the e.u.. May and here clique’ are signing this away with bi lateral agreements, and nobody, repeat nobody wants to talk about it. Brexit, mmmmmmm.

Gerald, well done on a comprehensive summary. You are absolutely right about the 3 net contributors but at present there are 25 recipients. You will note that it is Merkel & Macron that are demanding more money before trade talks start.

That fool Theresa May has already stated that Britain will not leave any country the EU worse off when we leave and that must be interpreted that we will continue to pay about 60% of our present contribution.

Only France or German or ourselves will ever have the possible peaceful option of leaving the EU. When you consider as a contributor we are being asked to continue to fund the EU, the recipient countries would be asked to pay back the yearly receipts plus any bailouts, and none of them have a hope of doing that. Then there is the problem that almost all of them have given up their currency and adopted the Euro.

So for them the only option would be a unilateral declaration of independence followed by the EU invading them with its newly formed army to take them over. What has happened is a repeat of the Russian takeover of its satellite nations to form the Soviet Union and the attempt by Germany twice in the last century to take over Europe.

Rather than being the means by which peace has existed due to the unifying effect of Brussels, we have seen the seeds of social tension and national divergence that is a prelude to the next European war.

An excellent article. I’m afraid that far too many voters still believe Mrs May and her party will take us safely out of the EU. I think her comments on a “no deal” Brexit are far more about keeping people voting Tory than applying pressure to the EU Commission.
Somehow we just have to get get it over to people that vested interests and the need for UK money will make leaving as drawn out and soft as the establishments in Brussels and London can get away with. Drip, drip drip, one small concession after another, so as not to frighten us, just the same way the EU has invaded every aspect of our lives.

Marie
on October 21, 2017 at 1:00 pm

I’ve grown to dread every speech TM makes. Each one grants yet more concessions to the eu, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a picture of her handing over one of those giant cheques, completely blank except for her signature.

citizenkain
on October 21, 2017 at 2:35 pm

I am afraid Marie that some remainiac civil servant reading your sarcasm may well present the idea to the PM as a positive wheeze.
The idea of TMay with a giant blank cheque poss in a cartoon form will be too good for the PTB to ignore.

JackT
on October 21, 2017 at 8:36 am

Gerald,

Excellent article which should be read and acted upon by May (some hope). The one thing I could add is that we must work with our friends in Europe once we are out to ensure the complete destruction of the EU. If we don’t achieve that some idiots will be campaigning to take us back in.

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